The Practical Skeptic: Readings in Sociology / Edition 6

by Lisa J. McIntyre

Overview

The Practical Skeptic: Readings in Sociology includes classic sociological research writings as well as recent pieces on fascinating topics of interest to students. It is the ideal companion to McIntyre's text, The Practical Skeptic: Core Concepts in Sociology, or other sociology texts. Readings in this edition challenge students to re-evaluate familiar social arenas: the college classroom, televised sports shows, restaurants, doctors' offices and even public restrooms. The readings focus around the essential message that there is much that goes on in the social world that escapes the sociologically untrained eye.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780078026881
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	06/10/2013
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	416
Sales rank:	227,896
Product dimensions:	7.30(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Lisa J. McIntyre is associate professor in sociology at Washington State University. She received the PhD in sociology from The University of Chicago. She is the author of three books including The Public Defender: The Practice of Law in the Shadows of Repute; Law in the Sociological Enterprise and The Practical Skeptic: Core Concepts in Sociology and the editor of The Practical Skeptic: Readings in Sociology. With Marvin Sussman, McIntyre edited Families and Law. An enthusiastic teacher and popular lecturer, McIntyre is a winner of Washington State University’s William F. Mullen Teaching Medal and numerous departmental teaching awards. Her central research focus is on how law and social behavior interact.

Table of Contents

The PromiseHow History and Sociology Can Help Today's FamiliesHernando Washington

Adolescent Humor During Peer InteractionMiscounting Race: Explaining Whites' Misperceptions of Racial Group SizeDoing the Right Thing: Ethics in Social ResearchIf Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Stranger, Would You? Probably

Queer CustomsBody Ritual Among the NaciremaAct Your AgeThe Code of the Streets The Power and Meaning of "Girl Watching"The Girl Hunt: Urban Nightlife and the Performance of Masculinity

The Presentation of Self in Everyday LifeThe Pathology of ImprisonmentThe Pathology of Imprisonment"Getting" and "Making" a TipCommanding the Room in Short Skirts: Cheering as the Embodiment of Ideal GirlhoodThe Rest Room and Equal Opportunity

"Cadaver Stories and the Emotional Socialization of Medical StudentsAnybody's Son Will DoSuspended Identity: Identity Transformation in a Maximum Security PrisonHow Women Reshape the Prison Guard RoleNot Just Bodies: Strategies for Desexualizing the Physical Examination of Patients

The Normality of CrimeThe Saints and the RoughnecksOn Being Sane in Insane PlacesPower, Status, and Abuse At Work: General and Sexual Harassment Situational Ethics and College Student CheatingDenying the Guilty Mind: Accounting for Involvement in White-Collar Crime

The Land of OpportunityNickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in AmericaThe Job GhettoRacism"Race Doesn't Matter, but..." The Effect of Race on College Professors' Experiences and Emotion Management in the Undergraduate College ClassroomConfessions of a Nice Negro or Why I Shaved My HeadThe Model Minority Myth: Asian Americans Confront Growing BacklashTales Out of Medical SchoolThe Sociological Eye and Its Blinders